The question “What would be the possible issues with an IQ based voting system” (https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/83199/what-would-be-the-possible-issues-with-an-iq-based-voting-system/83205) is protected but I’d like to post my answer to @JamesD.

@RedactedRedacted I can understand what's being asked now. The link to Spheromak belongs as part of the post, not just in a comment. I added the reality-check tag because I think ykur answers will be “it won’t work”.

In hindsight, I would have asked my first question in the sandbox before asking it for real, because while I got a lot of answers, they were a bit disappointing.
I've used other Stack Exchange sites, but none of them have a sandbox.
There should be some sort of mention, for first-time users, be...

Fragment (Random House, 2009), is a science-based thriller by bestselling author and screenwriter, Warren Fahy. The novel focuses on a crew of young scientists from a reality TV show who must try to survive when their research vessel, the Trident, lands on Henders Island, where predatory creatures have been living and evolving for over half a billion years. Producer Lloyd Levin optioned Fahy's screenplay adaptation of Fragment for a major motion picture. Pandemonium, Fahy's sequel to Fragment, was published in March 2013.
== Plot Summary ==
In 1791, Captain Ambrose Henders and his crew stop at...

Ancestor is a science fiction thriller novel by New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler. The novel was released in podcast format in 2006, with it also being released in print via Dragon Moon Press in 2007. Ancestor was later re-released by Crown Publishing in 2010.
== Plot ==
Ancestor follows PJ Colding as he and his crew are tasked with transporting a team of scientists to a remote snow covered landscape to finish their project: to recreate the ancestor of all humanity in order to provide life-saving organs that would be compatible with all people. As a snow storm threatens to trap them...

So an annoying thing about youtube is their recommendation engine... Say I want to watch just one fringe science video while doing research for weird ideas, or one music video for a band I'm not otherwise interested in at all. Suddenly my whole recommended list is alien conspiracies and crap pop music...

@DaaaahWhoosh I'm not sure that's possible. Think about how hard it would be to homogenize the more liberal cultures in US cities with the more conservative cultures in US rural regions? Machine learning is powerful but not that powerful.

@RedactedRedacted it has very creative creatures in it, that happen to cover a lot of things we’ve discussed on WB: different blood, shell evolves into skelleton (just came up recently), second brain, flex-fuel lichens, and I keep finding more.

@RedactedRedacted oh, why won’t the gun work? Because the plasma will be eroded by the atmospheric drag long before it reaches fusion speeds. The containment thing might not work at all in an atmosphere.

@PedroEtCetera The complexity of the currents is largely abstracted away (I don't have to know the math involved) so that's not hard. My main trouble is with learning enough Matlab/Octave to be dangerous. Translating the data from common formats (jpgs) to bin64 ints is tricky.

"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe. In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these "precogs" allow the Precrime Division to arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm. When the head of Precrime, John A. Anderton, is accused of murdering Leopold Kaplan, a man whom he has never met, Anderton is convinced a great conspiracy is afoot. His new assistant, Ed Witwer, must have corrupted the system in an attempt to oust him from the position...

So I have decided that for Frozen 2 I want to see Elsa being courted by Iceman and Pyro. Will she go for the good guy that understands what she's going through, or will opposites attract as the bad boy uses his charm? At least it wouldn't be a typical sequel...

lol the guy who left the team last week left behind a function with 13 arguments that overwrites a function that's used elsewhere

I disagree with his coding style, and the fact that he obviously would've broken things (if the library is called 'sftpUtil', you better expect 'getSFTPFile' to be taken), but now I can't scold him for it

@Mithrandir24601 yeah, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo‌​‌​ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo‌​oo‌​oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo was probably taken

fun fact, my name used to be 'Daaaah', but when I signed up for xbox live it was already taken. So I added the Whoosh on a whim, and now it's my favorite part

It's like, going to the doctors, to get your belly-fat removed, and it's actually a BABY! And you've been trying to get a baby for a decade! But you gave up on it a long time ago! AND NOW YOU'RE GETTING A BABY!!!!

@DaaaahWhoosh Burn the train. Scourge it bare with the fires of hell until all that is left is a twisted carcass slowly decaying as the tormented souls trapped in its rusty iron frame scream out in their eternity of torture and agony.